Tess Bacalla of the PCIJ does a lifestyle check of 25 officials of the BIR and finds that some live in tony Ayala Alabang on a P300,000 annual salary and drives Ford Expeditions, Land Cruisers and BMWs to work.

More critically, they could not explain how they acquired these assets, among them large shares of local business.

The article, filled with peso amounts and controversies, also has a list of luxury cars these examiners drive and pictures of the examiners' various vacation homes.